Cops & Courts

Crime Stoppers is asking the public for help in the case of a purse theft from Walmart.

The purse was taken from a customer’s cart on Nov. 10 while the woman was shopping in the store.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has provided two video surveillance photos taken from the store’s security cameras. One photo is of a suspect in the case, and the other is of the suspect’s vehicle, taken from the store’s parking lot cameras.

A Shelbyville man has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused his two stepdaughters, police say.
Robin R. Spencer, 36, of 808 Ash Ave., was arrested Nov. 10 and charged with first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.

A report by Shelbyville Police states that the girls, now in their late teens, accused Spencer of abusing them in 2002 and that the abuse first took place in Iowa, where the family formerly lived.

Both charges specify that the victims were less than 12 years of age when the alleged abuse began.

A Shelbyville man has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused his two stepdaughters, police say.
Robin R. Spencer, 36, of 808 Ash Ave., was arrested Nov. 10 and charged with first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.

A report by Shelbyville Police states that the girls, now in their late teens, accused Spencer of abusing them in 2002 and that the abuse first took place in Iowa, where the family formerly lived.

Both charges specify that the victims were less than 12 years of age when the alleged abuse began.

A woman sentenced to 70 years in prison for murder believes she should have a parole hearing sooner than 20 years.

So Barbara Gordon took her suit against the Kentucky Parole Board to the state Court of Appeals in Frankfort on Monday, where a 3-judge panel heard arguments about why Gordon, a native of Kenton County incarcerated in the women’s reformatory in Pewee Valley, had been wronged.

Martin Dominguez-Martinez, 26, of 8690 Shelbyville Road in Simpsonville was arrested Oct. 11 on Shelbyville Road and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first offense, reckless driving, no operator's license and failure to maintain required insurance, first offense.

A Bagdad man has been arrested and charged with robbing pharmacies in Simpsonville and Henry County.
Brandon L. French, 31, was arrested Friday night at his home and is being held in the Shelby County Detention Center because police say he robbed Smith-McKenney Drug Company in Simpsonville and Cook’s Pharmacy in New Castle at gunpoint.

Simpsonville Police Chief Chip Minnis said French robbed Smith-McKenney on Oct. 22, and then Henry County deputies reported he hit Cook’s Pharmacy on Nov. 3.

Two brothers from Shelby County, Eric Shelburne, 29, and Brannon Shelburne, 28, were arrested Thursday in Indiana and charged with robbery in connection with numerous banks in four states, including one in Simpsonville, Shelby County Sheriff’s Det. Jason Rice said.

“They caught them yesterday,” Rice said Friday. “We developed a suspect several weeks ago, and then yesterday, a group of police officers caught up with them.

Taylorsville man has been arrested and charged with assaulting a woman who was found lying on the side of Mount Eden Road 11 days ago.

Mark L. Bruner, 38, is lodged at the Shelby County Detention Center, charged with first-degree assault of Denisse Escareno.

Escareno, 24, of Shelbyville has not awakened and has remained in critical condition at the University of Louisville Hospital since she was taken there after being discovered on the afternoon of Nov. 5 by passersby about two miles south of Interstate 64.